Administration of Saint Petersburg
Asia and Pacific Collaboration Center

     


 

On March 28, 2014 on the New stage of the Mariinsky Theatre of Saint-Petersburg the opening ceremony of the Year of youth exchanges between the Russian Federation and The People’s Republic of China took place.  Ms. Liu Yandong, vice premier of the China's State Council, and Ms. Olga Golodets, vice-prime of Government of Russian Federation, addressed to the audience with welcoming speech. The representatives of administration, business community,  publicity of Russia and China, as well as the students of Russian and Chinese universities, attended the ceremony. The ceremony was followed by the concert of specially created Russian-Chinese youth orchestra under the direction of Valery Gergiev.

 

 

The years 2014 and 2015 are declared as the Years of Russian-Chinese youth exchanges. One of the main objectives of the program is an increase of the student contacts between the two countries. On March 28 the meeting of the organizing committee of the «Years of friendly youth exchanges of Russia and China» project was held. Olga Golodets and Liu Yandong signed the protocol on the implementation of the event plan. More than three hundred events are planned: seminars, scientific conferences, musical festivals, film forums, and, of course, trips of students from Russia to China and vice versa.

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